Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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links for 2010-06-28
Stuff White People Do: Pose In Cowboy Drag As Mel goes on to explain, Read Richard Slatta’s Cowboys of the Americas and you will get a very different picture. In reality, the first American cowboys were indigenous people trained by the Spanish missionaries. In reality, more than 30% of the cowboys on Texas trail drives […]
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The Problem With… Mike Posner’s “Cooler Than Me” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Mike Posner’s “Cooler Than Me” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. One question. Is the phrase “Dukebag” taken? I wanted to use it, but didn’t want to have to explain it as a portmanteau of Duke and Douchebag.
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links for 2010-06-22
Do We Really Have a 5th Taste? What Is the Umami Fad All About? | | AlterNet Umami was not discussed among the samurai or in the haiku of Basho. A mashup of umai, meaning "delicious," and mi, meaning "essence," this term and concept were created singlehandedly by the founder of Ajinomoto, a corporation whose […]
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The Problem With… Christina Aguilera’s “Not Myself Tonight” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Christina Aguilera’s “Not Myself Tonight” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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links for 2010-06-18
Zakaria: Afghan mines won't guarantee victory Zakaria told CNN he is skeptical of the idea that you could "divide $1 trillion by the population of Afghanistan to reach the conclusion that every Afghan will be rich … the history of natural resources and mineral wealth is that it produces enormous corruption and mismanagement, and very […]
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E3 2010 — Civilization V E3 Trailer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX-KViLbOrU&w=560&h=340] I was excitied that Civilization V decidied to appear at this year’s E3 conference. The Civilization series consists of turn-based strategy games. You play the role of a leader of a civilization alongside other civilizations beginning in the year 3000 BCE. Your main goal is to grow economically and progress technologically. Seeing your domain […]
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io9 interview with Ken Macleod
http://static.bloggingheads.tv/maulik/offsite/offsite_flvplayer.swf This is an interesting discussion, also given that I just finished reading the Cassini Divison from Macleod. It was a good, if a little short, novel on how fleshy humans cope after the technological singularity. A flashback character in Ken MacLeod’s 1998 novel The Cassini Division dismissively refers to the singularity as “the Rapture […]
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links for 2010-06-17
Why Bollywood's film about Hitler is profoundly misguided | Film | guardian.co.uk Hitler's support of the Indian National Army, a fascist-allied fighting force led by Subhas Chandra Bose in the 1940s, has apparently persuaded the makers of Dear Friend Hitler that the dictator loved India. In fact, the Nazi regime's disgust when Bose became romantically […]
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E3 2010 – Day 2 review.
All in all, this years conference highlights that E3 is a marketing spectacle more than a reflection on gaming that the Games Developer Conference offers. It is an exciting occasion nonetheless. Most of the games featured in the conferences were either sequels, prequels, or reboots of existing properties. There is nothing wrong with this if these extensions […]
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